Full name: Gutshot Straight: A Novel

Author: Lou Berney Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Humor, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Crime Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061766343 0061766348

Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man is too nice a guy for the life he's led, but not nice enough for any other. So he agrees to run an errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Illandryan, formidable pakhan of the Armenian mob in L.A. All Shake has to do is deliver a package to Las Vegas and pick up a briefcase. But the package turns out to be a wholesome young housewife named Gina who's run afoul of Dick "The Whale" Moby, a murderous 300-pound strip club owner. Shake decides to set Gina free and now the two of them are on the run to Panama, hoping to sell the valuable (and unusual) contents of the briefcase. But first Shake will have to out-maneuver two angry crime bosses, an Armenian thug plagued by erectile super-function, and a devious billionaire swindler. Not to mention, Shake will have to survive his own heart, since he's going to discover that Gina is more complicated than he thought. This book is part of the "Shake Bouchon" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Whiplash River" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: County Line by Bill Cameron Lost Souls by Michael Collins The Sun Chemist by Lionel Davidson A World I Never Made by James LePore A Dark Devotion by Clare Francis Land of the Blind by Jess Walter Grasshopper by Barbara Vine Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard Primal Fear by William Diehl Limitations by Scott Turow Violent Ward by Len Deighton Darkside by P. T. Deutermann The Fifth Angel by Tim Green Flinch by Robert Ferrigno An Absence of Light by David L. Lindsey Metzger's Dog by Thomas Perry The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn The Serial Killers Club by Jeff Povey Camino Island by John Grisham